Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Vitolo Jr., nine years old and small in the underfed fashion of the poor, was the 18th child (nine still living) of an immigrant Italian who makes a little money working on an ash truck, and a fat Italian mother who helps buy food by cutting flowers out of cloth. He went to school, where his teachers considered him bright, and in the evenings he played in a rock-strewn vacant lot. Usually he played with the neighborhood girls because he was too little to get much attention from the older boys...
Some observers in Lisbon thought, however, that at a time when authoritarianism was out of fashion, Strong Man Salazar might have lost more than he gained by an election he called "as free as those in England." Though his budgets balance perfectly as ever, food is scarce, living costs up 60 to 100%. Resentments kindled in the elections might catch fire later among the businessmen. Communists, intellectuals and naval officers who comprise his disunited opposition...
...Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits echoes the cymbal-clashing and drumbeats of a parade of Chinese dancers noisily celebrating the i yoth birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. In the hotel lobby a Chinese bride & groom have just posed for wedding pictures in the Chinese fashion: five austere black-gowned male relatives held the center of the portrait; the pretty bride in her white gown and the groom in his new black suit and wing collar were in the background...
...Kisses, No Killing. As fashion decrees in Latin America, the army had called the turn. But the army had broken with tradition: like the majors who overturned the government of Venezuela last month, the Brazilian generals had apparently been on the side of democracy...
...last week, things looked up sharply. President Prescott landed his first big contract - a $200,000-a-year deal with California Flower Shippers to fly flowers from California to Chicago at $1,440 a planeload. Said Prescott: Skyways should now be able to expand in a more dignified fashion...